Opening R60 files

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What is the .R60 file type?

Indexed filename extensions like .r60 (.r00–.r99) are used in the 'older' naming scheme for multi-part RAR/WinRAR archives. RAR refers to both the name of a popular proprietary data compression algorithm developed by E.Roshal and its reference command-line implementation, while WinRAR is a versatile RAR-based GUI archive manager for Microsoft Windows.

The .r60 file is the sixty-second part of an 'old-style' multi-part RAR/WinRAR archive (the first part always receives the standard .rar or .exe extension, with the first indexed extension being .r00). Files like .r60 are RAR/WinRAR archives by themselves and can be directly opened by any compatible archive manager. The key difference of such files (.r60, etc.) from regular, single-file RAR/WinRAR archives is that each of such volumes contains only a certain portion of the entire archive's data and is generally useless without the other volumes.

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According to the 'newer' archive volume naming convention used now by default by all RAR-compatible archivers, all RAR/WinRAR archive volumes bear the standard .rar extension preceded by an indexed string (e.g., ".part60.rar").